“Naturally, you don't sit down in 'white hot inspiration' and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse”- yes, an honest Harper Lee nodded that in a 1964 interview.She wanted to be the Jane Austen of Alabama.
To Kill a Mockingbird, like they say, is one of the books everybody reads at some point of time, and i am no exception to this. I had read it, or i should say i was made to read at a point when my teen was ending, with my all madness. Published in the 60's, the book was an instant hit and ever since more than 30 million copies has sold, translated to many languages, adapted into an Oscar-winning movie. The book, winning the prestigious Pulitzer prize in 1961, voted 'the best novel of the century' and for her contribution to literature, Presidential Medal medal of freedom in 2007.
RIP Harper Lee!
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